In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, organisations need a transformative approach to finding, assessing, attracting, retaining, and developing leadership talent.
Every client is different, and every challenge is unique. We reject the one-size-fits-all, transactional approach. Deconstructing traditional methodologies, we build tailored solutions every time.
Context, Insights, Agility & Quality are central to everything we do.
Frisch Search was established in 1997.
For over 25 years, we have immersed ourselves in the industries and functions we work across.
We build and maintain extensive networks of established and emerging leadership talent.
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Every client is different, and every challenge is unique. We tailor the solution every time.
We partner with our clients and tailor our service to their requirements; working flexibly alongside in-house teams to complement them in areas where we can bring expertise.
Frisch Search has experience partnering with clients across Europe, North America, and the APAC region and brings a truly international perspective on consumer-centric industries and deep insight into the diverse talent communities.
We routinely advise clients on the skills, experience, behaviours, and capabilities required of leaders to create value and provide guidance on what it takes to attract the best in their field.
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When Nike built Apparel, Retail and Category Management capability we supported them with 50+ placements in Europe and Asia.
8 of our placements rose to VP/SVP positions and another 8 progressed to key global roles at Nike’s HQ in Portland/OR. 2 of our placements hold senior leadership roles in China today.
Nike’s global revenues quadrupled since we started working with them. 9 of our placements are still with the company and have an average tenure of 18 years.
When Starbucks transitioned to a new operating model, we assisted in building market leadership teams in Europe. We made 9 placements in a period of 2 years, including the Regional VP’s for Store Design, Development, Marketing and HR.
We also worked with Starbucks placing leadership talent in the emerging consumer products organisation.
VF Corp’s revenues have grown from $7.6bn to $12bn since we started working with them in 2008. We are proud to be a preferred partner.
We have placed 28 leaders with The North Face, Vans, and Timberland, including 3 executives who have risen to Regional or Global Brand President roles.
7 of the executives we placed have been with the group for 7+ years. We supported VF Corp. when they built strategic go-to-market capabilities. We also placed Senior Directors and Vice Presidents in Commercial, Marketing, and Product leadership roles.
At Frisch Search, we place leaders who create and lead business growth and development in new geographies, categories, and distribution channels.
Sectors
Lifestyle/Fashion (36%)
Sporting Goods/Outdoor (27%)
Entertainment/Media/Tech (22%)
Travel/Leisure/Food Retail (15%)
Functions
General Management (19%)
Marketing & Brand Management (17%)
Retail/Customer Experience (16%)
HR & Talent Acquisition (14%)
Commercial (13%)
Product Creation, Management & Merchandising (13%)
Finance, Research/Insight, Strategy, and Biz Dev. (8%)
The mission of Frisch Search is to deliver on the Culture, Diversity and Leadership needs of our clients, and to be a partner to our candidates throughout their career.
The candidates we place have an exceptionally high tenure and career progression with our clients. Our focus is on supporting businesses in times of high-growth and transformation and we routinely deliver hires in newly created roles, functions and markets.
Frisch Search placed 50+ established and emerging leaders with Nike in a period when the business grew from $1bn to $16bn in annual revenues and the organisation built apparel, retail and category management capabilities. Five of the leaders we placed have had a tenure of 20+ years, and another seven of 15+ years. We assisted Starbucks in building market leadership teams in Europe when the company transitioned to a new operating model, placing 9 senior leaders in less than two years.
Modern Leadership: Businesses are evolving from a primarily strategy-driven, analytical, highly structured and financial performance-focused mindset to purpose-driven and values-led leadership.
Now, creativity and innovation are the competitive advantage and human values inspire a collaborative, agile and resilient work environment that embraces change.
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We are passionate about delivering diverse and balanced shortlists of exceptional candidates, promoting diversity and equality in the leadership teams and supporting our clients in achieving positive change and competitive advantage.
We champion diversity and inclusion through Modern Leadership https://modernleadership.net/ – a platform we have created to build a community of progressively minded established and emerging leaders and leadership experts.
Modern Leadership is teaching us how leadership is changing, recognising the growing importance of human values-led leadership, especially with regard to diversity and inclusion, sustainability, social justice, workplace change and business transformation.
Modern Leaders believe that fluid communication and collaboration in diverse teams create better ideas and thinking, agility and a deeper connection with employees, consumers, business partners and investors.
Frisch Search have developed a new approach to how we identify, engage and represent candidates that is values-driven and assesses and predicts the mindset and behaviours of executives as well as the working environment and culture they will foster and thrive in.
Our clients and candidates have access to our Modern Leadership community. Here, they can find inspiration, curated content, networking opportunities and learn how to better engage in conversation about the values that drive business success and value.
Executive Search for us is deeply personal. We care about the work we do and about the people we work with. We are mindful that being assessed and evaluated is sometimes uncomfortable and unsettling and we do everything we can to ensure that our candidates feel heard, seen and valued and are treated with dignity and respect. We build relationships with candidates that allow them to speak openly and ask difficult questions and we frequently ask for feedback.
We passionately present our clients’ diversity and inclusion efforts and commitments and believe in the collective ownership of building diverse leadership teams. We show candidates the diverse makeup of the teams they would be part of. We guarantee careful, yet clear communication so that there is no inference that there may be an intention to advantage or disadvantage any group/person. We make every effort to explain the search criteria – the skills, experience and ability required, and make sure that all candidates have a positive experience and are reassured of our and our clients’ commitments.
At the start of a search we assess the diversity of the entire candidate pool in the respective function, market and domain.
Of course, we make sure that we understand and comply with diversity and inclusion policy, regulation and legislation in the markets and territories we work in.
Our talent network is highly diverse across cultural and socioeconomic background, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age and disability.
We stay connected and nurture our ecosystem through active immersion and community engagement, continuous learning and training. We participate in debates, forums and events and make sure we understand new emerging tools, solutions.
Frisch Search was founded and is led by Carola Frisch. Carola is a leadership expert and has created Modern Leadership, advocating the shift towards a new human values-led leadership standard and a regular contributor and speaker at industry events, conferences and forums.
Carola is a Fellow member of the RSA, an organisation in the forefront of significant social impact that envisages a world where everyone is able to participate in creating a better future. She also is an active supporter of the One Better World Collective, a non-profit organisation with a 10-year strategy to equip people everywhere to act upon the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030.
In more than two decades, Carola has built and led diverse teams in terms of age, ethnicity, social background, nationality and cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The firm has a strong track record in delivering diverse leadership placements.